Storybook Plan

For my Storybook project this semester, I'll be diving into Texan urban legends, namely those that deal with ghosts. 

Themes that I'll try to explore are going to be: loss, relationships and how they can spiral out of control, and family ties. Ghost stories, namely urban legends are "based" in reality, so each of the stories that I'll be telling will be heavily connected to real life, meaning less of a "myth" and more of a realistic fiction story.

Story sources can come from a number of places - the best resource for figuring out the "basis" of the urban legends comes from Weird U.S., a site that delves into odd American history, folklore, and culture specific for every state. They have a bunch of urban legends within the website (and I have the book at home) so this source will be extremely good for gathering ideas and how to tell the story. 

The writing style that I'll be using is going to vary with each of the stories that'll be told. My first story is going to deal with the "Donkey Lady", a woman who was burned up so badly that she now looks like a donkey, killing unlucky night travelers who make her angry or are simply caught within her area. A story like this could easily be told from a first person perspective, but I think it would be more fun from a third person perspective, going into the backstory of the Donkey lady, making her seem more real, with real emotions tied behind her actions. The next story that I'm going to aim for will be the Woman Hollering Creek, where I could go into the family ties theme of showing the process that a mother would have to go through in order to murder her children and then kill herself. Finally, the last story will be the White Rock Lake ghost that asks for rides in people's cars, then disappears without a trace - this could be more involved with the afterlife, maybe with the ghost passing on some important information to the driver.